Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.